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Donald Trump: “They stopped the oil leases.”

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Published | Video Starts at 12:59

And if you get those prices down, you know, that's what caused inflation, the energy. I mean, the spending. But I think even more so, the energy. The energy went up. They stopped the oil leases. They stopped a lot of things that we were doing. And then they went back to what we were doing as much as they could because the prices were going through the roof. (12:59–13:01)

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Asserts that the Biden administration halted oil leases.

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